Waycross, GA — South Georgians are sounding the alarm! Before leaving office, the Biden administration decided to hand over control of the 700-mile Okefenokee Swamp to the United Nations via UNESCO. They want to designate it a UNESCO “World Heritage Site” but that designation would cede US control over our own land.
This past weekend GRA President Nathaniel Darnell and GRA Junior NFRA Director Abigail Darnell joined with Travis Sanctuary, Brooks Strickland, and The John Birch Society chapter in Waycross at the park, where they are sounding the alarm and working with CFACT (Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow) urging the Department of the Interior to reject this proposal. There is a ground-swell of people in the community concerned about this issue.
“There is zero reason we should just hand over any influence or control of any Georgia land to the United Nations!” said Nathaniel.
A CFACT press release stated: “All three counties bordering Okefenokee Swamp have voted against UNESCO coming into their backyard. Public lands access and property rights would be infringed if this action proceeds.”
“Global authority is dangerous because it quickly can become tyrannical and the people are far removed from the decision maker(s),” said Abigail.
Those concerned about this issue were encouraged to follow Americans for the Okefenokee on Facebook. That group issued the following statement: “UNESCO World Heritage is a Trojan Horse utilizing the program as a vehicle for a soft-law approach with mechanisms such as blacklisting, surveillance, and the pursuit of Outstanding Universal Value to influence national policies and undermine sovereignty for the advancement of universal international ideological standards often at odds with local community values.”
While proponents of the measure maintain that a World Heritage designation is merely an honorary label that would boost tourism for the site, Americans for the Okefenokee are quick to point out that UNESCO acknowledges that a World Heritage designation includes “restrictions.” It is those restrictions and the potential for abuse of UN authority that has locals concerned.
If a global entity has authority to impose laws and restrictions on Americans and American land, then claiming the United States still owns the land is meaningless. America might have ownership in name only.
Ballot questions in nearby Ware County indicate that around 78% of voters oppose the UNESCO bid.
Sanctuary and his team distributed T-Shirts protesting the takeover with the phrase: “Just say no to commUNism”!
“Reagan and Trump took us out of UNESCO,” said the representative for the JBS Waycross chapter, “but then their successors added us back in! The thing is that when Biden added the U.S. back into UNESCO, the U.S. had to pay back-pay on dues for all the years we were out under Trump! A lot of people don’t realize these things are going on.”
Sadly, RINO Congressman Buddy Carter helped to promote this encroachment on American land. This one of the reasons the GRA endorsed Mike Collins, and not Buddy Carter, in the Republican Primary for U.S. Senate.
To learn more about this issue, read the press release here: https://www.cfact.org/…/cfact-releases-video-report-on…/
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Don’t give our land away.